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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1897
Page
5
Market items listed for Gorractad Thursday include frogs and various goods. Notable entries show dope pricing, Bowes laxie, Hart butters, and Rak butchers stock. Prices and quantities appear inconsistently due to OCR errors but reflect a sequence of coded item names and costs.
All persons' accounts are requested to call and settle by month end. Unsettled accounts will be placed for collection. Olson to settle this month. Prank Berdonenumber and Th. N. Osher with wife were in Kimbersburg on special business. W. E. Mathers shipped a car from here Wednesday.
Mrs. Lester visits parents in Heckley South Dakota while Inga Peterson and Anna Nelson go to Estherville. Deschenka and Johnson open a Spencer photography gallery. Wainwright returns to Norris Illinois with stock. Church progress in the Norwegian Lutheran church includes a tall tower and colored glass. postmaster petition support for J. Dolliver. Local market reports note hog prices strong and farmers retiring, with various visits and small town happenings around Emmetsburg and High Lake County area.
Fallible notes from High Lake recounting people visiting from Fort Dodge Forest City Norris and Twelve Mile Lake. cattle trading and farming activities. illnesses church revivals. local aims for spring marriage and dairy moves. travel notes on hunting and bear stories in Arkansas.
A collection warning from MARTIN JENGWOLD requests settlement before January 25 1897 and notes books will be sent to collection. A. V. Jonxson warns accounts paid by February 1 1897 avoid fees. PJ Paulsen urges prompt settlements. JANS THOMSEN and others mention dances at Heindorfuet Hall in Graettinger with invitations to attend Fridays in January.
A vintage advertisement warns that coughing signals a foreign presence in the body and promotes Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil as a remedy. It claims the product strengthens the body to fight disease and offers a free book on prevention. Sizes are 50 cents and one dollar.
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